The Western Cape,
with Cape Town
as its capital city, is a
scenic, mountainous
province with an equally beautiful coastline.
The sandstone mountains
have a granite basin. Clear and milky quartz crystal pockets are found
in numerous
areas, with the Ceres, Worcester and Villiersdorp areas yielding the
best
specimens. Some of these specimens are double terminated, with clear
and
coloured phantoms and other inclusions.
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Vredendal
is an
exceptional mineral locality. It is a small agricultural town,
some 300 km north of Cape Town. A lime and dolomite quarry
(pictured left) a few kilometers outside Vredendal, has yielded some
very
interesting mineral specimens.
We have been fortunate to obtain (over several years) a large
collection of these hard-to-come-by mineral specimens from this
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Vredendal, Villiersdorp, Worcester and
Ceres (the latter two both about 120 km from Cape Town)
are beautiful areas.
Nestled
between the Cape
fold mountains,
these areas
deliver beautiful and unusual quartz specimens.
Below we have a selection
of crystals from these lesser known areas.
(FOLLOW
THIS LINK FOR MINERAL SPECIMENS FROM THE
NORTHERN
CAPE.)
Specimens
for
sale from the the Western Cape:
Latest
Upload: 24 October
2011
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Quartz
Crystal with Rutile -
SWCV 001
28 x
17 x 11 mm
US
$ 65
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Twinned
Double Terminated Quartz Crystals with Feldspar and Dolomite -
SWCV 002
44
x 38 x 16 mm
US
$ 75
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster Intergrown with Feldspar Crystal
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SWCV 004
38
x 36 x 35 mm
US
$ 85
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Quartz
and Dolomite Cluster with Rutile -
SWCV 005
41
x 26 x 21 mm
US
$ 120
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Feldspar
Crystal with Quartz -
SWCV 006
34
x 26 x 18 mm
US
$ 35
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Quartz
Crystal Floater with Rutile Needles -
SWCV 007
50
x 14 x 13 mm
US
$ 75
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster on Dolomite and Feldspar Crystals
-
SWCV 008
72
x 35 x 30 mm
US $ 70
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Feldspar
Crystal
with Embedded
Quartz Crystals -
SWCV 010
33
x 24 x 22 mm
US
$ 80
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster -
SWCV 011
54
x 46 x 35 mm
US $ 60
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Double
Terminated Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCV 012
134
x 69 x 48 mm
US
$ 600 (Please
see Discount
Policy)
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Quartz
Crystal Floater -
SWCV 013
58
x 45 x 22 mm
US $ 60
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Very
Unusual Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCV 014
58
x 40 x 13 mm
US
$ 60
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Quartz
Crystal with Rutile -
SWCV 015
30
x 20 x 17 mm
US
$ 35
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Clear
Quartz
Crystal with Multi-Terminations -
SWCVL 001
56
x 20 x 09 mm
US
$ 35
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Light
Smoky
Cathedral Quartz
Crystal -
SWCVL 002
75
x 49 x 22 mm
US
$ 65
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster with Faden Line -
SWCC 001
67 x 58 x 28 mm
US
$ 250 (Please
see Discount
Policy)
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Delicate
Quartz
Crystal Cluster -
SWCC 002
50 x 25 x
16 mm
US
$ 120
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster with High Lustre -
SWCC 003
67 x 49 x 32 mm
US
$ 250 (Please
see Discount
Policy)
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Quartz
Crystal Druse with Lovely Phantom -
SWCC 004
67 x 49 x 32 mm
US
$ 120
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster
with Phantom and Faden -
SWCC 006
32
x 32 x 29 mm
US
$ 25
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Quartz
Crystal with Phantom and Faden -
SWCC 007
24 x 13 x 03 mm
US
$ SOLD
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Faden Quartz
Crystal -
SWCC 008
20 x 11 x 02 mm
US
$ SOLD
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Faden Quartz
Crystal with Interesting Inclusions -
SWCC 009
37
x
17 x 07 mm
US
$ 20
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster on Matrix -
SWCC 010
47
x 41
x 40 mm
US
$ 55
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Quartz
Crystal with Prominent Faden Line -
SWCC 011
25
x
14 x 04 mm
US
$ 7
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Faden Quartz
Crystal -
SWCC 012
25
x
13 x 03 mm
US
$ 7
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Quartz
Crystal Floater with Faden Line -
SWCC 013
17
x
15 x 03 mm
US
$ 3
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Faden Quartz
Crystal with Multi-Terminations -
SWCC 014
28
x
09
x 05 mm
US
$ 7
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Faden Quartz
Crystal Group, Fused into One -
SWCC 015
23
x 15½ x 03 mm
US
$ 15
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Double
Terminated Faden Quartz
Specimen -
SWCC 016
22
x
10 x
03 mm
US
$ 7
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